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Make Me Anxious
Title. Whether it's a mismatched title and body text, prose written to bring forward feelings of anxiety, an anxious poem, a stream of anxious thought - if you feel it will incite anxiety, I want to see it! Any style, any subject matter.
Lnbuchho in Words

Mammogram: Paddles squeezing, the silent tech, extra pictures, a phone call to the radiologist, the request for more images, more squeezing but focused on one area, back to the waiting room, clock ticking, called back for the sonogram, warm jelly, a wand massaging back and forth over the same area, the silent tech snapping pictures, the phone call to the radiologist, more waiting, the biopsy needle pricking the same area, a sting as it pulls the fluid, go home and wait for our call…